Smooth City: Against Urban Perfection, Towards Collective Alternatives Jewellery no matter the scale

no matter the scale

Dimensions: height 22 x width 16 x depth 1

Focusing on four decades

barbaric act drives the Sattoufs to make the most dramatic of changes

Barry Schwabsky and Nancy Spector

Smooth City: Against Urban Perfection, Towards Collective Alternatives Jewellery no matter the scaleIn cities across the world, a new urban condition is spreading rapidly: an ever increasing push toward efficiency, sanitization, surveillance and the active eradication of any aberration, friction or alternative. From Dubai, Hong Kong and London to Amsterdam and Cairo, the smooth city, with its gated communities and theme park zones, insidiously transforms urban life into seamless "experience." While the demand for safe, clean and well functioning